I don't know if it is possible at this point. I'm sure many of us never expected Keith Olbermann to turn this way in becoming SHOCK TV. We thought of Keith Olbermann as a respected Commentator who seemed to care about reporting truth. An Edward Murrow of our time.
But he instead has become the waterboy for the Obama campaign. Or shall I call him their media hatchet? Now resorting to making up stories and coloring the facts and bringing on guests that were known to be a Gore basher during the Bush 2000 campaign, Richard Wolfe, proceding to "commentate" and LIE on the air.
Lastnight Keith Olbermann repeated a false story, again. Twisting statements Hillary Clinton has made during this campaign, that we know what the other party will throw at the Democrats in the General Election, and she is best qualified to run against McCain's claim of experience and foregin policy. Hillary has been stating this. But Keith Olbermann decided lastweek to be the Obama campaign's media strategist in distorting her comments that somehow she was praising John McCain over another Democrat, Obama. When she said:
March 1 Dallas,
"I think you'll be able to imagine many things Senator McCain will be able to say," she said. "He’s never been the president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience.Senator Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002."
The same argument she has been making. But Keith Olbermann decided to take a distorted comment from a blogger and make a story out of it. The "Hillary: McCain would be better than Obama" making a story and lie, not with comments Hillary made, but their own interpretations of the above comments. Did Keith get too much backlash and instead of admitting a mistake, he repeated it, only worse?
Lastnight, another piece of the Reality World died. Keith Olbermann brings up the same piece of news, only this time he shows the video clip of Hillary saying this and then procedes to distort and color the actual news and facts of what was said. He went on to call her the new Lieberman, posting up her name "McClinton", trying to say she would favor McCain over Obama, when that is not at all what was being discussed. And sadly, HE KNOWS THAT. Funny, the only person I know who would want to be compared to Joe Lierberman, would probably be the one who called him his "MENTOR", when Senator Obama himself endorsed Joe Lieberman over Democratic Primary Challenger Ned Lamont, and gave that glowing praise at their annual Democratic Party dinner in Connecticut, in which Ned Lamont was also in attendance.
But on top of that, Keith brought on another one of those guests that act as an Obama sympathizer, Richard Wolfe. He embellished on Keith's comments and proceded to paint Hillary as being Lieberman like with claims and even said, "look, she's for Free Trade". Accusations and lies, is this what Countdown has become? If even we can't get Keith Olbermann to apolgize for his very colored words and claims, because he began his rant with a self declared immunity "this may be Hyperbole", but as Keith has said, he is responsible for his guests, and even though Cable is not considered "public airwaves", he used to care about facts. Will he make amends? Will he correct the record of comments made by Richard Wolfe? If Keith Olbermann still wants to believe Obama's lies, and not believe comments made by fellow New York journalists:
"We do not have a direct quote indicating her campaign told us she thought it was good for the economy at that time."-Newsday
"You know, in the years after her husband signed NAFTA, Senator Clinton would go around talking about how great it was and how many benefits it would bring."-Obama
Obama mailer: Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a "boon" to our economy
"Obama's use of the citation in this way does strike us as misleading. The quote marks make it look as if Hillary said "boon," not us. It's an example of the kind of slim reeds campaigns use to try to win an office".-Newsday
And he obviously is choosoing to ignore all of Mrs. Clinton's own comments and policy. I guess like Senator Obama, ignore the facts and just claim you don't believe her. Oh, the politics of cynicism.
But maybe you might believe a known reporter who plays no favortism to the Hillary Clinton campaign, Carl Bernstein, when even he stated:
Bernstein: Hillary Clinton’s economics, the ones she preached to her husband in the White House are much closer to John Edwards then you would think. She argued with Bill Clinton when she was First Lady, her husband, she said ‘Bill, you are doing Republican economics when you are doing NAFTA.’ She was against NAFTA.
And he repeated again on CNN Tuesday night, the night Hillary Clinton WON BIG, Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas.
Oh Keith, come back to us, PLEASE. You know the old saying, the truth shall set you free.
Update.
Keith also brought up Obama's NAFTAgate claiming that someone from the Hillary Campaign last month also told Canada to take lightly her NAFTA position. First of all, that is also a lie. Because it was reported "that indirectly someone claiming from the Clinton campaign" (I wouldn't be surprised if Obama's people called and said "you can include Clinton's campaign on this too"), but Hillary not only denied it, (which Goolsbee from the Obama campaign could not and did not) and Hillary said she gives them blankent immunity to release the name of whomever contacted them (because they knew they did not). Video
No such confirmation ever came against the Clinton Campaign, but the Canadian's DID release the memo of the Obama talks, that the AP released.